[-empyre-] Could we ever have a "game" to investigate the Holocaust?
Mike Reddy
Mike.Reddy at newport.ac.uk
Wed Mar 23 16:36:48 EST 2011
Could/should/would Sobibor, The Pianist, Schindler's List, etc (http://hubpages.com/hub/Movies_-_Top_Five_Holocaust_Films
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Holocaust_films) ever be made in an interactive medium?
I'm still haunted by City 17 (Half Life 2) and how it reminded me of a cold, foggy December in Poland in '95 when I visited Auschevitz and Berkenow with several attendees at a nearby academic conference; a local, a german woman, a man of Jewish descent and a fellow Brit. Is interaction in a virtual environment ever going to be possible, given the controversy of the following:
Super Columbine Massacre RPG!
(http://www.columbinegame.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Columbine_Massacre_RPG!
http://www.playingcolumbine.com/)
Six Days in Fallujah
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Days_in_Fallujah)
--
Dr. Mike Reddy, Future Technology, Games Development and A.I., Division of Computing, Newport Business School, University of Wales, Newport, City Campus, Newport South Wales NP20 2BP
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> 1. the city of the naked / A cidade do homem nu (naxsmash)
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> Cc: inti.guerrero at gmail.com, Jessica Silverman
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> Subject: [-empyre-] the city of the naked / A cidade do homem nu
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> I had the pleasure of meeting Inti Guerrero (BR/NL) a few nights ago
> in San Francisco where we were both attending an opening for Scott
> Treleaven's new installation works, drawings and photographs at
> Silverman Gallery. http://silverman-gallery.com/exhibition/view/1971
>
> Meeting Inti reminded me that one of the prime motivations for
> introducing such a broad philosophical and political question as "how
> does a field become visible, when?" is to look with desire and
> discernment, at
> the works of artists who have dedicated their lives to the enterprise
> of 'making visible' -- and perhaps more, of acting this making. Inti
> has brought to the English-reading world a concise description about
> one such artist and
> architect visiionary, Fl?vio de Carvalho (1899-1973). http://www.afterall.org/journal/issue.24/flavio-de-carvalho-from-an-anthropophagic-master-plan-to-a-tropical-modern-design
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> I'd like to direct our thinking to 'nakedness' in connection with
> antropofagia, the great inventive term of Oswaldo De Andrade
> (1890-1954)....Antropofagia was a movement that literally meant,
> devour ourselves, or
> eat our culture, remix and shit out our mixed melange of pasts , our
> complexities of 300 or more ethnicities in Sao Paulo-- those lost
> traditions revived through a cannabalism, living again through the
> eating of culture, thus
> making new bodies... "Tupi or not Tupi...(from the Manifesto
> Antrop?fago, Andrade 1928).
>
> These new bodies are us, naked we are walking, coming into the city,
> the city of the naked w/mn, as de Carvalho foresaw, even as in his
> late practice, he walked the city (streetwalking) of Sao Paulo in an
> 'experience'
> wearing a scaffold-like crossdressing rigid structure air-dress mini
> skirt and blouse (and this at the age of about 60).
>
> De Carvalho, moving always towards an architecture of interiority (the
> inside look, the ingestion, pregnant) , is compelled by an ironic
> gusto, con mucho gusto, to eat his own architectural (failed)
> prospectus. Early on
> as a young painter and architect, de Carvalho envisioned a 'naked
> mankind' free from 'scholastic taboos'-- 'free for reasoning and
> thinking' , and, as Inti writes, 'could begin a painstaking process of
> wonderment, change and
> becoming in this new city....de Carvalho's urbanism presupposed an
> existing energy within the subjectivity of the individual, a type of
> energy coming from a person's psyche and the impulse of his or
> her desires, which would be stimulated within the different urban
> scenarios" of the 'Cidade do homem nu'....
>
> De Carvalho ingested, as it were, the hostile fortress of an
> 'efficient' (as he called it) internally focussed government palace
> after a palace coup ) with his rejected proposal ("Efic?cia"). I
> believe that he (poetically, politically)
> ate his own words, as we say in English; he metaphorically ingested
> the substance, as well as the notoriety, of his 'violent vision of a
> government that is in a position of self-defense towards an unstable
> polity..." (Guerrero).
> He antropofagized the traumatic vision of a repressive palace
> 'against' the naked people, moving as it were to a profound via
> negativa, a negative walk. The expression of this 'taking into the
> self' the
> stigmata or machine of repression gives De Carvalho, to my
> imagination, a saint-like apparition, like a glow in the dark
> animation walking before me, even though his walk occurs in the early
> fifties before my
> consciousness, and in another tropical city far from mine. A walk
> 'against' the repressive consciousness of state and religious systems
> of control. The walk 'contra' led to a literal walk as an appearance
> or breakout of the unconscious.
>
> He did this by walking against a Corpus Cristi processional, refusing
> to take off his hat (anti-naked, as naked) in 1956...... "Lyncha!
> Lyncha!"
>
> Corpus Cristi, the body of Christ-- reconfigured through the design-
> research action of walking against the corpus of believers, 'as' a
> sacrificial Naked Man, man with (disrespectful) hat-- to make visible,
> as he wrote "to reveal the sould of believers through a mechanism that
> make it possible to study their pysiognomic reactions, their gestures,
> walk, gaze; in summery, to feel the environment's pulse, to
> psychically touch the tempestuous emotion of the collective
> soul, to register the expression of that emotion, to rpovoke revolt in
> order to see something of the unconscious...' (translation Inti
> Guerrero.)
>
> '[D]esvendar a alma dos crentes por meio de um reagente qualquer que
> permitisse estudar a rea??o nas fisionomias, nos gestos, no passo, no
> olhar, sentir enfim o pulso do ambiente, palpar psiquicamente a emo??o
> tempestuosa da alma coletiva, registrar o escoamento dessa emo??o,
> provocar a revolta para ver alguma coisa do inconsciente'. Fl?vio de
> Carvalho, Experi?ncia no.2, Rio de Janeiro: Nau, 2001.
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